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PACKE Michael
Winged Stallion. Fighting and Training with the First Airborne. [Second Edition].
8vo., Second Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1948. The author was one of the earliest volunteers.
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PIEKALKIEWICZ Janusz
Arnhem 1944. Translated by H.A. and A.J. Barker. [First English Edition] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with very numerous photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. One of the best pictorial surveys of the battle, comprising day-day coverage with many useful photographs not easily available elsewhere. Published a year after the German edition. Enser, p.13.
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LANGLEY J.M.
Fight Another Day. Lt. Colonel J.M. Langley, MBE. MC. With an Introduction by Airey Neave.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. The personal experiences of a young subaltern in the Coldstream Guards who lost an arm at Dunkirk, fell into enemy hands and escaped via Lille and Paris to Marseilles. After his return he worked in MI6 on the escape lines across France and Belgium. Enser, p.150.
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JOSLEN Lieut.-Col. H.F.
Orders of Battle. United Kingdom and Colonial Formations and Units in the Second World War 1939-1945. Prepared for the Historical Section of the Cabinet Office. Based on Official Documents. [Third Impression]. NEAR FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., sm. folio, Third Impression, with several gatefold leaves; original series binding of buckram gilt, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-marked at backstrips ands fold-ins. The standard reference, published in the UK Government's official series 'History of the Second World War'. The first edition appeared in 1960.
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BARNETT Correlli
The Swordbearers. Studies in Supreme Command in the First World War. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps in the text and endpaper maps; navy cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, red top, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped, mildly browned dustwrapper. Enser, p.339
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DENNIS Peter
The Territorial Army 1906-1940. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, endpapers lightly browned; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. RHS 'Studies in History', 51. The standard account of the creation and development of the TA, from its record during the Great War to its fundamental role in the reshaping of Britain's army during the anxious years immediately prior to WWII. SCARCE.
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HALLOWS Ian S.
Regiments and Corps of the British Army. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations of insignia in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Valuable standard reference in an age of accelerating defence reviews. It provides detailed if concise summaries of all regiments and corps, including history, battle honours, awards, memorials, dress, marches, museums and regimental histories.
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ROONEY D.
Burma Victory. Imphal, Kohima and the Chindit Issue, March 1944 to May 1945.
8vo., First Edition, with 46 plates on 16 and maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean in the dustwrapper. One of the best of the recent crop of titles on the 'forgotten war', this study makes use of much new research by the Burma Star association. It is particularly valuable for its account of the Chindits. Already scarce in the original edition.
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SHERMAN A.J.
Mandate Days. British Lives in Palestine 1918-1948.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and illustrations in the text; cloth gilt, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper.
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BRACKENBURY Sir Henry
The Nearest Guard. A History of Her Majesty's Body Guard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, from their Institution in 1509 to the Year 1892. 200 COPIES WERE PRINTED; VC ASSOCIATION COPY
Roy. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with a fine coloured frontispiece, a coloured plate, 11 plates (5 large and folding) in monochrome, and 13 illustrations in the text, black endpapers, neat inscription on front free endpaper verso; original cloth, sides with double frame border enclosing corps badge elaborately blocked all in gilt, back gilt extra, gilt top, bevelled edges, uncut, a very good, bright, firm copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 200 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY OUT-OF-SERIES). This copy was formerly in the library of Conwyn Mansel-Jones who won the Victoria Cross in South Africa on 27 February 1900. He went on to serve in WWI and was also awarded the DSO and the Legion d'Honneur. Mansel-Jones became CMG and was a member of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms from 1920 until his death in 1942. A letter confirming his purchase of this copy is loosely inserted. A SPLENDID ASSOCIATION COPY OF A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT UNIT HISTORY. White, p.255.
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HIRST] [F.W.
The Arbiter in Council. PUBLISHER'S PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, some very light and occasional spotting (mainly marginal); original blue cloth, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of J.B. Body, and trade ticket of Military Parade of Marlborough on front paste-down. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE PUBLISHER WITH NEAT BLIND STAMP ON TITLE. Scarce.
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ROBINSON R.E.R.
The Bloody Eleventh. History of the Devonshire Regiment. Foreword by Major-General HRH The Duke of York. [Complete set].
3 vols., roy. 8vo., First Editions, with 2 frontispieces, 166 illustrations and facsimiles (a number in colour and a number full-page) in the text and 154 maps (a number folding); regimental cloth, gilt backs, a fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Vol. I: (Robinson): 1685-1815 (1988); Vol. II (Aggett): 1815-1914 (1994); Vol. III (Aggett): 1914-1969 (1995). The definitive history, compiled and published for The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment. The Devonshire Regiment [formerly 11th Foot] amalgamated with The Dorset Regiment in 1958. Individual volumes, especially in this condition, are already scarce. Complete sets are seldom offered for sale
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ANGLESEY Marquess of
A History of the British Cavalry 1816-1919. NEAR FINE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
8 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous plates, illustrations in the text and maps throughout; cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in the dustwrapper. VOLUMES ONE TO FOUR ARE SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLES. Vol. 1: 1816-1850 (1973); Vol. 2: 1851-1871 (1975); Vol. 3: 1872-1898 (1982); Vol. 4: 1899-1913 (1986); Vol. 5: 1914-1919 Egypt, Palestine & Syria (1994); Vol. 6: 1917-1918 Mesopotamia (1995); Vol. 7: Curragh Incident & Western Front 1914 (1996); Vol. 8: Western Front 1915-1918; Epilogue 1919-1939 (1997). Anglesey's monumental work, now unlikely ever to be surpassed, is the defiinitive history of the final phase of the British cavalry.
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ATKIN Ronald
Dieppe 1942. The Jubilee Disaster. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 30 plates on 8; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.66
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BRYANT Arthur
Jackets of Green. A Study of the History, Philosophy, and Character of the Rifle Brigade. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 4 double-page coloured plates, 13 monochrome plates on 12, illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; original regimental green cloth with crest blocked in silver on upper board, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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EASTWOOD Stuart
When Dragons Flew. An Illustrated History of the 1st Battalion The Border Regiment 1939-1945. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with illustrated title, 4 full-page coloured maps and very numerous monochrome photographs in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, unevenly sunned dustwrapper. Splendid pictorial history based on a huge compilation of photographs from public and private records. As one would expect, about half the book is given over to the battalion's role in Operation MARKET. Includes battalion ROH, honours and awards, battalion roll for Arnhem, operation orders for MARKET and much other data. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Sutcliffe, p.293.
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FALVEY Denis
A Well-Known Excellence. British Artillery and an Artillerymen in World War Two. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; cloth, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Already elusive
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OATTS L.B.
Proud Heritage. The Story of the Highland Light Infantry. Volume One. The 71st HLI 1777-1881. [Foreword by Major-General Alexander Telfer Smollett of Bonhill]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 4 coloured plates, a full-page illustration and 5 maps (2 double-page) in the text, and a large folding coloured chart, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original regimental green cloth, crest blocked in gilt on upper cover, gilt back, green top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned and with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Lovely copy of the first of four volumes of the author's standard history . Scarce in this condition. Sutcliffe, p. 373; White, p.117.
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POWNALL General Henry
Chief of Staff. The Diaries of Sir Henry Pownall. [1933-1944]. [Edited by B. Bond]. COMPLETE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 29 plates; blue cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises Vol. I: 1933-1940 (by which time Pownall was CGS to the BEF in France); Vol. II: 1940-1944 (CoS to Mountbatten). In the latter part of his career Pownall was Chief of Staff to Mountbatten (then SACSEA). His remarkably frank diaries caused considerable controversy on publication, not least because of his opinions of Wingate. Unaccountably scarce as a set, especially in this condition. Graham & Cole L20; Enser, p.268.
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STEWART Adrian
Eighth Army's Greatest Victories. Alam Halfa to Tunis 1942-43. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and 11 maps in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Includes valuable list of Eighth Army formations and units.
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SULZBACH H.
With the German Guns. Four Years on the Western Front 1914-1918. Translated by Richard Tronger. Foreword by Terence Prittle. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN THE DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First English Edition, with plates; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly creased and frayed at edges. This classic memoir of the Great War was first published in Germany 1935; this is the first edition in English. Ironically the author fought for Britain in WWII. Enser, p.28 (recording the original edition)
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MACKSEY K.J.
Afrika Korps. [Purnell's History of the Second World War. Campaign Book No. 1]
8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread and numerous photographs and maps throughout; original pictorial wrappers, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. Purnell's History of the Second World War. Campaign Book No.1.
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REYBURN W.
Rehearsal for Invasion. An Eyewitness Story of the Dieppe Raid.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 15 plates on 14, small neat contemporary signature on front paste-down, some light annotation; original cloth, gilt back, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. War correspondent's view of Operation JUBILEE, the ill-fated raid on Dieppe and later published as 'Dawn Landing'. The clothbound edition is scarce. Enser, p.127; Law 0487.
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EVE Hilary
Bone Idle on Parade. Memoirs of an Incompetent Soldier. [Foreword by Colonel Sir Geoffrey Pattie]. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. The author's post-war service and exploits with the Rifle Brigade in Hanover, Mons OCTU, and subsequently with Royal Signals. Scarce.
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WAR OFFICE
Notes on Map Reading 1929. 1929. The War Office.
8vo., with a plate, large folding coloured maps and several diagrams and tables in the text; original printed wrappers, covers lightly browned at edges, wire-stitched as issued, staples a little rusty as often else a very good, clean copy. Notified in Army Orders for September 1929. 26 Manuals 412; code 57-212-1
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DELAFORCE Patrick
The Fighting Wessex Wyverns. From Normandy to Bremerhaven with the 43rd Wessex Division.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Well-illustrated resume of this renowned West Country formation, including its role in XXX Corps in Market Garden. The first edition in cloth is now scarce, especially in the dustwrapper.
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TOLLEMACHE E.D.H.
The Turning Tide. The British Army at War. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and plates; original tan cloth, backstrip lettered in brown, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at extremities. Remarkably well-preserved copy of a mid-WWII morale-booster promoting the new breed of British soldier born of the travails of the early war years. Unsurprisingly, a number of the plates are drawn from achievements in the Western Desert. In this condition, a scarce survival. Enser, p.76.
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STEWART Adrian
The Early Battles of Eighth Army. 'Crusader' to the Alamein Line 1941-1942. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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CLARK Alan
The Donkeys. [Second Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with a frontispiece, 12 plates and 5 maps in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; cloth, backstrip lettered in red and white, red top, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at extremities, with small scuff to backstrip and tiny loss to rear panel Published a month after the first edition. Classic study of the notorious gulf between High Command and the Front Line on the Western Front in 1915, particularly the disastrous generalship of Second Ypres, Neuve Chapelle and Loos. Compiled with free access to the private files of Liddell Hart, it takes its title from the well-known quotation: Ludendorff: 'The English fight like lions.' Hoffman: 'But don't we know that they are lions led by donkeys'. This book is the inspiration for Joan Littlewood's acclaimed stage musical 'Oh, What a Lovely War!'. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Enser, p.23.
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CLARK Alan
The Donkeys. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 12 plates and 5 maps in the text; handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, uncut, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Classic study of the notorious gulf between High Command and the Front Line on the Western Front in 1915, particularly the disastrous generalship of Second Ypres, Neuve Chapelle and Loos. Compiled with free access to the private files of Liddell Hart, it takes its title from the well-known quotation: Ludendorff: 'The English fight like lions.' Hoffman: 'But don't we know that they are lions led by donkeys'. A LOVELY CPY OF A VERY SCARCE WORK. Enser, p.23.
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MASTERS John
The Road past Mandalay. A Personal Narrative. UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY
8vo., Uncorrected Proof Copy, with title-vignette; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Effectively a sequel to his splendid 'Bugles and a Tiger' (1956). Masters served as a middle-ranking officer in Burma throughout the war. This striking personal record of service with Gurkhas and Chindits (including his participation in Operation BLACKPOOL) therefore stands between the more usually recorded views of generals and private soldiers. Includes illuminating portraits of Slim, Wingate and Stilwell among others. PROOF COPIES ARE VERY SCARCE. Enser, p.90; not recorded by Graham & Cole, which lists only the US (Harper) edition as M55.
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BIRDWOOD Field-Marshal Lord
Khaki and Gown. An Autobiography. With a Foreword by Winston Churchill.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece toned in sepia, 15 plates toned in sepia and 5 coloured maps (4 folding); blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. The 'army' volume of Birdwood's autobiography, covering his army career from the late Victorian period to wide-ranging service in WWI (most memorably at Gallipoli). Followed some years later by his 'social' sequel 'In My Time'. Woods, B36.
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ROBINSON Jane
Angels of Albion. Women of the Indian Mutiny. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, sage endpapers; a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Sorsky 915.
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NUTTING Anthony
I Saw for Myself. The Aftermath of Suez. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION
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MOWAT F.
The Regiment. [Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment].
8vo., First Edition, with 16 full-page maps in the text; regimental grey cloth, crest blocked in gilt on upper cover, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter mildly rubbed, creased and frayed at edges. The author served with this famous Canadian regiment throughout WWII. In 1940 it served briefly in France, returned to the UK for further training, landed in Sicily in July 1943, fought on the Italian mainland until early 1945 and then took part in the final battles for Germany. The well-written narrative is based mainly on movements and engagements. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Perkins, p.150
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GRAVES C.
The Thin Red Lines. [With an Epilogue by Sir Edward Wilshaw]. IN THE DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 33 plates on 26 and endpapers maps in red and blue; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly creased at edges. The first published record of the ten thousand men and women working in more than seventy countries and on the high seas who maintained the life-lines of British and Commonwealth communications throughout WWII. The 355,000-mile global system was based on the Cable & Wireless network; Wilshaw was Chairman during six years of conflict. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION
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DAVIS Larry
USAAF/USAF Damaged Aircraft 1935-1957. Bent & Battered Wings Volume 2. Illustrated by Don Greer. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured drawings and monochrome photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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YOUNG (ed.) Michael
Waggoner's Way. A Century of the Corps' Past from the Journals of the ASC, RASC and RCT and from Corps Photographic Archives 1891-199. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, very numerous photographs (a number full-page) in the text, and pictorial endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter unevenly faded at backstrip. Edition limited to an unspecified number of copies (this copy out-of-series). VERY SCARCE
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DOYLE Arthur Conan
The British Campaign in France and Flanders 1914-[1918]. COMPLETE SET IN PUBLISHER'S CLOTH
6 vols., 8vo., with 19 folding maps (a number coloured), 40 maps and plans (a number in the text) and 7 full-page charts in the text, some occasional light browning; original blue cloth, gilt backs, covers lightly age-worn and scuffed else a very good, bright, clean set. With all half-titles and publisher's advertisements as called for. Vol. I: 1914 (1916); Vol. II: 1915 (1917); Vol. III: 1916 (1918); Vol. IV: 1917 (1919); Vol. V: January - July 1918 (1919); Vol. VI: July - November 1918 [1920]. Doyle's famous history of the Great War in France and Flanders was the first full chronological account, and written shortly after the events described. Enser, p.54; Robbins, 14461 (recording the 1928 edition).
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BRIERLEY G.J.
The Territorials in Northern Ireland 1947-1992. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; green cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. From modest beginnings in 1937, the Northern Ireland Territorials were reformed in 1947 from the many volunteers who had served in either the TA or the Supplementary reserve. The new and thriving force of volunteers were raised into an Anti-Aircraft Brigade and Infantry Brigade group totalling more than 6000 personnel by 1950. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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RANKIN Kenneth
Top-Hats in Tobruk. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and maps in the text; sand cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. The story of a troop of AA gunners in the early North African campaigns. Includes an almost hour-by-hour account of the Siege of Tobruk, and many Australian references. SCARCE. Not recorded by Enser.
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ROYLE T.
The King's Own Scottish Borderers. A Concise History. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, blue endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SLIM Field-Marshal William
Defeat into Victory. IN FULL THEMED MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 21 maps (the majority folding); handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with XIV Army emblem, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, original backstrip gilt mounted on new and separate leaf at front, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Personal account of the war in Burma by the Commander of the 'forgotten' Fourteenth Army, and now generally recognised as one of the great military memoirs of all time. AN ELEGANT COPY. Cole & Graham B20; Enser, p.91
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HORROCKS Lieutenant-General Brian
A Full Life. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 23 plates on 14 and 10 maps in the text; handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. First edition of the acclaimed autobiography by one of the most outstanding corps commanders of WWII. His renowned 30 Corps was regarded as one of the finest fighting formations throughout North-West Europe (including a central role in Operation GARDEN). Enser, p.266.
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WHEELER-BENNETT J. W.
The Nemesis of Power. The German Army in Politics 1918-1945. BRIGHT WORKING COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; red cloth, gilt back, upper hinge cracked (but binding still sound), a good, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its stamp on front free endpaper only. Enser, p.186.
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O'DONNELL (ed.) H.
Historical Records of the 14th Regiment, now the Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) from its Formation in 1685 to 1892. 250 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and 45 plates (12 in colour) and 13 illustrations in the text; original cloth gilt, gilt back, covers lightly rubbed and age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. Covers several eighteenth century campaigns, then the Peninsula, Walcheren and Waterloo, and later nineteenth century campaigns including Java, Nepal, the Mahratta Wars, the Crimea, New Zealand and so on. EDITION LIMITED TO 250 COPIES. Sutcliffe, p.98; White, p.67.
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BIERMAN J.
Fire in the Night. Wingate of Ethiopia, Burma and Zion. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.
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DOHERTY Richard
Only the Enemy in Front. (Every other Beggar behind). The Recce Corps at War 1940-1946. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with 22 plates on 12 and 15 maps in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first dedicated history of the Corps. Published in the same year as the first edition.
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EIGHTH ARMY
Finito! The Po Valley Campaign 1945. Headquarters, 15th Army Group. Italy. [Foreword by General Mark Clark].
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with title in red and black, very numerous photographs and maps (several full-page) in the text and a folding map in red and black, inner wrappers lightly spotted; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, bright copy. Deceptively detailed account of Fifteenth Army Group's two constituent armies - Britain's Eighth Army and US Fifth Army - in the Po Valley campaign. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.228
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VANDERVEEN (ed.) Bart H.
Olyslager Auto Library. Half Tracks. Compiled by the Olyslager Organisation., Edited by Bart. H. Vanderveen.
Oblong 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text; pictorial boards, backstrip lettered in white, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper
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